Reply To: E Online: First Look at Rebecca Mader as the Wicked Witch

[TheWatcher]

TheWatcher wrote: . I love wicked… But I just hope they really aren’t using the Wicked version of the witch. But this article is really confusing since they used the Elphie name a few times

Of course it’s an adaption. They’ll probably take influence from different interpretations of the WWW. Also the book version couldn’t actually do all that much magic. The musical one was more powerful.

I guess its up for debate. I would say the Grimmerie is a lot more powerful in the novel than it is in the musical. From what we can see in the novel, that spell book is VERY dangerous and holds a lot of bad things (including a POSIONED APPLE!!!!!!) Elphbaba herself may not have used that much magic, but give that book to The Wizard and he would have done serious damage (hence why she kept it from him at all costs. He could actually use it and use it right). In the musical, this wasn’t the case. The book is a lot friendlier >> So I would say if someone has the power, and they know what they are doing, give them the book of spells from the novel and not the musical and they become a worthy competitor for Rump or Regina. Its not so much about the witch herself, but her knowledge of magic. And Elphaba from the musical just isn’t quite there yet.